The Homelessness Industry

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-62637-741-7
Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Homelessness once was considered an aberration. Today it is a normalized feature of US society. It is also, arguedinThe Homelessness Industry: the embrace of neoliberal policies and piecemeal efforts to address the problem have ensured a steady production of homeless people, as well as a plethora of disjointed social services that often pathologize individuals instead of housing them. Tracing the transformation of homelessness from being a social-justice issue to one with solutions based on medical models and zero-sum-games analyses, the authors explore how government policies and practices have served to shape our limited response to the problem. Equally important, they consider how a more just, human-rights-based approach might be effected.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twiss, Pamela C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Making of the Homelessness Industry 2. Homelessness Today and Its Historical Roots 3. Competing Values: Neoliberalism and Social Justice 4. From Social Problem to Psychiatry 5. Early Federal Policy and the Fight for McKinney 6. Implementation in a Hostile Context: The First Two Years of the McKinney Act 7. Services, Not Justice 8. From Managing to Ending Homelessness 9. The Present Continuing Quest for Justice.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Beck is professor in the School of Social Work at Georgia State University.
Pamela C. Twiss is professor of social work at the California University of Pennsylvania.